Here Lies Love, Fun Home and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 Lead Lortel Award Nominations

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01 Apr 2014

Beth Malone, Sydney Lucas and Alexandra Socha in Fun Home

Photo by Joan Marcus

The Off-Broadway musicals Here Lies Love, Fun Home and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, as well as new plays by Joshua Harmon, Will Eno and Bruce Norris are among the nominees for the 29th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards, which were announced April 1 by the Off-Broadway League.

The immersive musicals Here Lies Love and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 broke records, leading with 11 nominations each. They were followed by the ambitious new musical Fun Home, which garnered nine nominations. Additional productions to take multiple nominations include The Public Theater revival of Good Person of Szechwan (5), Roundabout Theatre Company's Bad Jews (4), MCC Theater's Hand to God (4), Signature Theatre's The Open House (4) and the New York Theatre Workshop's Burt Bacharach musical What's It All About (4).

The Off-Broadway League, which presents the Lortel Awards, previously announced the addition of four acting categories, which will now separately honor actors and actresses in the respective play and musical categories. Previously, the nominees in the Outstanding Lead Actor/Actress and Outstanding Featured Actor/Actress categories comprised performers from both plays and musicals.

The 2014 nominees follow:

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Outstanding Play

Bad Jews Produced by Roundabout Theatre Company Written by Joshua Harmon

Domesticated Produced by Lincoln Center Theater Written by Bruce Norris

The Night Alive Produced by Atlantic Theater Company Written by Conor McPherson

The Open House Produced by Signature Theatre Written by Will Eno

Outstanding Musical

Fun Home Produced by The Public Theater Music by Jeanine Tesori, Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron Based on the Alison Bechdel book

Here Lies Love Produced by The Public Theater Concept and Lyrics by David Byrne, Music by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, Additional Music by Tom Ganey and J Pardo

How I Learned What I Learned Produced by Signature Theatre Written by August Wilson, Co-conceived with Todd Kreidler, in collaboration with Ruben-Santiago Hudson Performed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Satchmo at the Waldorf Produced by Long Wharf Theatre, Shakespeare and Company, Scott and Roxanne Bok, Roz and Jerry Meyer, Ronald Guttman, Shadowcatcher Entertainment, John LaMattina Written by Terry Teachout Performed by John Douglas Thompson

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Carson Elrod, The Explorers Club Philip Ettinger, Bad Jews Russell G. Jones, The Call Jeremy Shamos, Dinner With Friends Fred Weller, Reasons to Be Happy

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Hannah Bos, The Open House Lynn Cohen, I Remember Mama Lisa Kron, Good Person of Szechwan Molly Ranson, Bad Jews Sarah Stiles, Hand to God

Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical Heath Calvert, Nobody Loves You Nick Choksi, Bunty Berman Presents... Blake DeLong, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 Noah Hinsdale, Fun Home Lucas Steele, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical Uzo Aduba, Venice Brittain Ashford, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 Melody Butiu, Here Lies Love Judy Kuhn, Fun Home Shaina Taub, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812

Emmy Award winner Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman will host the 29th Annual Lortel Awards on May 4. Held at 7 PM, the Lortel Awards will honor Tony-winning producer Robyn Goodman (Cinderella, In the Heights, Avenue Q) with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Michael Heitzman will direct the Lortel Awards for the fifth consecutive year. The Lucille Lortel Awards are produced by special arrangement with the Lucille Lortel Foundation. Additional support is provided by Theatre Development Fund.